Ian Lougher’s Black Horse Finance Yamaha team will be expanded to three riders at the Isle of Man TT this year.
He will run Swede Mats Nilsson in the superbike and supersport races and Japanse rider...

Heres Ryan Farquhar winning cookstown road races 2008. He had two wins and a second, was man of the meeting, he finished the year with 600 and 1000 championship titles and won dukes rankings title for a third time!

Race fans will be able to watch this year’s Isle of Man TT races on ITV and ITV4 thanks to a new deal struck by North One Television, who have the television production, sales and distribution rights...

The Manx Motorcycle Club has made changes to the programme for the 2009 Manx Grand Prix that they claim is going to boost interest in the event.
A Post Classic Race has been introduced for the first...

The Coleraine club, organisers of the North West 200 are looking at the possibility of adding a new class to the race programme as a replacement for the 400s – but it won’t be until 2010.
As announced...

Ian Lougher will be riding the AIM Yamaha Superbike at the major international road races in 2009.
The deal renews a partnership that Lougher had with team boss Alistair Flanagan in 2000 when he rode...

Back in the office after two days in Northern Ireland, primarily for Thursday’s North West 200 launch and I was trying to explain just how the race is revered in the province.
The launch festivities kicked off at around 10.00am but by then there were already pictures flying through cyber-space to serve websites worldwide of bikini-clad Miss Northern Ireland, draped across a 1930s Rudge in front of...

Last year’s big North West 200 winners Steve Plater and Michael Rutter are both on different bikes this year. MCN asked them about their news deals.
Michael Rutter NW200 Coca Cola Zero Yamaha
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The North West 200 organisers are on the verge of granting special dispensation to allow Michael Dunlop to race the rotary-engine Norton at this year’s 80th Anniversary meeting on May 16.
Dunlop is to...

Kawasaki Motors UK has confirmed official support for the McAdoo Kawasaki racing team on the exciting and demanding pure road race level.
With recent signing Conor Cummins on the team’s 2009 Kawasaki...